30 JANUARY 1886, Page 3

The vacant Deaneries are filled up,—both of them by very

good men ; the Deanery of Chester by the appointment of the Archdeacon of Chester, the Rev. John Lionel Darby, and the Deanery of Worcester by the appointment of Dr. Gott, the Vicar of Leeds. The last appointment is a singularly good one. We do not say that Dr. Gott has done at Leeds all that Dr. Hook (the late Dean of Chichester) did, for Dr. Hook in some sense created the Church in Leeds ; but he certainly has done all that man could do to perpetuate, extend, and fill with a noble ardour the great work which Dr. Hook had initiated. Leeds will lose much in Dr. Gott ; but the work of a Vicar of Leeds is of a kind which can hardly be kept up at full tension for any very large number of years.